Bellies and blue moons

Waiting for our new babe, feeling the wind of change blowing into our door...

Soaking up every last moment of this glorious summer weather...

And enjoying every inch of these sweet two!

Wiggly Teeth

How can it be that my firstborn lost her first tooth today, followed rapidly by her second tooth? Really, where has the time gone? The dentist warned us in March that she had EIGHT wiggly teeth and AnaSofia has been patiently wiggling them daily in hopes one would break loose. And it finally happened eating a peach at the Farmer's Market... As we walked to the car eating our fresh finds she showed me a little white something that she found in her peach and promptly threw it aside. We took a step and then Mama yelled "WAIT! Where did that go?!!" and we searched the sidewalk and found it and I told her, "It is your tooth, your first lost tooth!" and sure enough there was a little gap in her mouth where that sweet little tooth had resided. She was SO proud...

 By the end of the night the other bottom tooth gave way too and she was left with this ridiculously sweet smile...

 

I am in love!

Summer Daze

From the moment the sun starts to rise until the sun sets late at night we are outside...

Instead of hot tea inside... We have iced tea in the field...

We watch my belly grow and MOVE (oh how it moves each day!) and talk about this last summer of us four...

 

 The sprinkler is on daily.

 Bikes are rode up and down our dead end road at least three times a day.

We found a new pond just a few miles away - warm and quiet, with no one else swimming - and make sure to bring the fishing poles...

 

But mostly we just play, lay and live - outside in the fields from sunrise to sunset...

 

It has been a good summer, I am so thankful for every moment of it...

Growing in the Garden

 

Every morning I greet the rising sun after satisfying all the little loves' bellies...

That first breath of fresh air is heaven on Earth to me... I have to be outside first thing each morning.

The ladies rush from their henhouse like little rockets 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Then we six, hopefully with one or two little loves in tow parade to the garden to see what is growing.

I love this moment...

 There is always something exciting to see, something wonderful to eat...

 AnaSofia loves to make elaborate picnic table lunches for us three with all the good eats.

Kasper loves to eat his carrots and all else straight from the ground, soil covered and all.

 And I sit criss/cross/applesauce and weed and pick away for a bit and gather the day's ripe harvest for dinner. Carrying it all in on my growing belly.

 And because of that belly I tend to be pretty relaxed about what we can get done in a day and if we miss out on a perfectly ripe vegetable, well then, little AnaSofia just brings it in and uses it to decorate the house. Who knew a flowering asparagus was so beautiful?!